Anglophone reporting on the current Serbian political situation has been a general failure of the ears and eyes. Every report I've seen only elucidates the strength of the reporters' political prescriptions.

One of the worst distortions I've come across was listening to The Rest is Politics - a political podcast, by …

Over the years, I've become convinced, that 'backups' are a bad paradigm, and should be left to edge-cases. We should instead focus on 'synchronization' where possible.

Where backups say 'make a copy, on tape, place it in the basement, and lock it tight', they immediately have to follow this statement with '...and …

Stepping Stones: rocks to step on, to avoid the surrounding mud or water.

When crossing a river, the more stepping stones it has, the better. Walking across six stepping stones feels much better than hopping across three, and hopping across three is better than jumping to one stepping stone in the middle of a river, …

GPG (GNU Privacy Guard) is better than good, it's necessary. But the gpg UI inflicts more pain than 100 Microsoft Office licences combined.

The Autocomplete Options

Typing gpg<TAB>, I get this nonsense:

1gpg                gpg-wks-client     gpgsm
2gpg-agent          gpg-wks-server     gpgsplit
3gpg-card …

• Chris on Mastodon broke the news that Meta censors #Democrat, but not #Republican.

• Hacker News starts the discussion a few hours later.

• Finally, news outlets are covering it.

• Andreas on Mastodon announces a security backdoor in xz.

• Hacker News covers it.

• ...then the news outlets.

I'd bet my SSL certs that …

A fascinating article wandered across my feed, arguing that LLMs like ChatGPT replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con. 'Fascinating' because it's devilishly clever, and quite seductive, but seems like complete bunkum for the most part.

'People get fooled into thinking LLMs are clever', Baldur Bjarnason says, very …